Harivāyustuti with English Translation /64

45
 
1. the haters of Lord SriŚrī Hari become emaciated in

this dark eternal hell for want of food.
 

 
2. their eyes are torn open and deformed by the cruel

demons with their sharp nails and teeth.
 

 
3. In this hell there are pitch-dark wells which are

full of filthy matter.
 

 
4. The birds living there wound the bodies of these

souls with their sharp beaks.
 

 
5. In addition to these,
 
stones are hurled at these
souls by the attendants of the Lord.
 
stones are hurled at these
 

 
वज्रकल्पाः = 1) Similar to वज्रायुध in sharpness. क्षुर = razor
 

2) Similar to diamond in hardness.
 
Spear
 

जलूका: =leeches (1:रक्तपाः)
 
शक्ति = Spear
उपजिहतेः [ते = approach to suck blood. According to

Vēdātma yati
 

समीपं गत्वा विध्यन्ति ।
 

 
The destiny awaiting these souls is described in Bhaāgavata;

III-33 ch-19-20-21 and III-31 ch-33.
 

 
VERSE 14
 

 
In this verse the poet makes a special prayer for the

bestowal of pure, constant and sincere devotion.
 

 
ऊर्जितां = increasing प्रवृद्वां
 
faci
निव्र्याजां-Sincere, bereft of pretexts.
 
अडाम्बिकाम्
सद्गुणाः = माहात्म्य ज्ञानादयः
 

 
Jayateertha in his Nyāya Sudhā (fataifasजिज्ञासाधिकरण) gives

a lofty and glorious definition of this kind of भक्ति. Here

is Dr. B. N. K. Sharma's fine translation of that great defini-

tion: "Bhakti is thus, the steady and continuous flow